Robert Robison, 84, co-founder Stand Energy

7:31 PM,
Dec. 13, 2012

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Robert Robison wasn't a boxer like his father, yet he never stopped fighting to succeed in business.

Even a series of knockdowns, when "his face was shoved in the dirt," couldn't stop him from coming back.

In 1984, Robison co-founded Stand Energy Corp., which seized an opportunity provided by changes in federal regulations to buy natural gas from Texas and Louisiana, pipe it to Ohio and sell it to industrial customers. ...